Your favorite period pieces please?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A definite recommend for 2005 version of Bleak House (also Andrew Davies)

I was going to say this. I love it so much.

I also recommend North and South, the 2004 BBC miniseries. (not quite the same after learning more of the uncomfortable contextual history but still a good story)

And now that I think about it, I think Enola Holmes counts. I love that movie, and its sequel.

[Anonymous]

A Room with a View, out of Africa - not sure enough of the set pieces for ya but so beautiful.

[Anonymous]

80s-90s Merchant and Ivory movies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions

A few have already been mentioned but I love The Remains of the Day.

[Anonymous]

Bridgerton

[Anonymous]

Seconding Poldark. So good, except the last season was trash because they wrote it just for TV and didn't follow the books.

Some that haven't been mentioned...

Sanditon - Was so beloved, fans campaigned when it was cancelled and they brought it back.

Doctor Thorne - miniseries by the creator of Downtown.

Belgavia - also by the creator of Downton. They might be a second series or spin off in the works.

These aren't British, but so good.

Velvet - about a 1940s department store in Madrid. Originally in Spanish, but you can watch with dubbing or subtitles. So much eye candy.

The Bonfire of Destiny - another one you can watch with dubbing or subtitles. Made in France. Costumes are amazing.

[Anonymous]

Glenn Close is brilliant in Dangerous Liaisons. Barry Lyndon is very well done too and is a Kubrick film.

[Anonymous]

In addition to Merchant Ivory films and all of Andrew Davies's adaptations, I liked The King's Speech, Master and Commander, Atonement, Amazing Grace, Gosford Park, and I Capture the Castle. For Irish shows, Derry Girls and Rebellion. Operation Mincemeat was fun. The costumes in the Emma with Anya Taylor-Joy are exquisite. Not British, but Portrait of a Lady on Fire and The Empress were (very different but) enjoyable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A definite recommend for 2005 version of Bleak House (also Andrew Davies)

I was going to say this. I love it so much.

I also recommend North and South, the 2004 BBC miniseries. (not quite the same after learning more of the uncomfortable contextual history but still a good story)

And now that I think about it, I think Enola Holmes counts. I love that movie, and its sequel.

NP. PP, can you explain the bold? Uncomfortable context as in the actual historical events, or the writing of the Gaskell novel, or the making of the TV miniseries? Not sure what you mean but I'm interested.

Agree re: the two Enola Holmes movies; they're a hoot for adults as well as tweens.

Bleak House was excellent, as was the tV version of Little Dorrit (the Matthew MacFadyen/Claire Foy miniseries--the feature film isn't good). As a big fan of Dickens novels, I'm pretty tough on adaptations but both of those were worthy!

My No. 1 TV recommendation is one many don't seem to know, not sure why: The Way We Live Now. Miniseries with David Suchet, a very young Cillian Murphy, many others. Incredible adaptation of the Trollope novel, and extremely topical here and now, in its excoriation of greed and what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme.

For films, my top recommendation: The Personal History of David Copperfield, the 2019 feature film with Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie. Ravishing to look at, ingeniously told, superbly cast, and completely embracing the spirit of Dickens. We all were teary at the end.

I also am a fan of the TV miniseries (only four episodes so very easily bingeable) of Emma, with Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller. I enjoyed the newer feature film and it's beautiful to look at, but for a more naturalistic story and more dimensional performances, the miniseries is my favorite. The earlier film version with Gwyneth Paltrow has some good performances (hers, not among them, for me--too arch and knowing), but the Garai/Miller version is more down-to-earth and affectionate than any other, IMHO. Hey, OP, maybe you need to see 'em all and do your own Emma film festival and do a review for us!

[Anonymous]

There is a german one - the empress

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A definite recommend for 2005 version of Bleak House (also Andrew Davies)

I was going to say this. I love it so much.

I also recommend North and South, the 2004 BBC miniseries. (not quite the same after learning more of the uncomfortable contextual history but still a good story)

And now that I think about it, I think Enola Holmes counts. I love that movie, and its sequel.

NP. PP, can you explain the bold? Uncomfortable context as in the actual historical events, or the writing of the Gaskell novel, or the making of the TV miniseries? Not sure what you mean but I'm interested.

Agree re: the two Enola Holmes movies; they're a hoot for adults as well as tweens.

Bleak House was excellent, as was the tV version of Little Dorrit (the Matthew MacFadyen/Claire Foy miniseries--the feature film isn't good). As a big fan of Dickens novels, I'm pretty tough on adaptations but both of those were worthy!

My No. 1 TV recommendation is one many don't seem to know, not sure why: The Way We Live Now. Miniseries with David Suchet, a very young Cillian Murphy, many others. Incredible adaptation of the Trollope novel, and extremely topical here and now, in its excoriation of greed and what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme.

For films, my top recommendation: The Personal History of David Copperfield, the 2019 feature film with Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie. Ravishing to look at, ingeniously told, superbly cast, and completely embracing the spirit of Dickens. We all were teary at the end.

I also am a fan of the TV miniseries (only four episodes so very easily bingeable) of Emma, with Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller. I enjoyed the newer feature film and it's beautiful to look at, but for a more naturalistic story and more dimensional performances, the miniseries is my favorite. The earlier film version with Gwyneth Paltrow has some good performances (hers, not among them, for me--too arch and knowing), but the Garai/Miller version is more down-to-earth and affectionate than any other, IMHO. Hey, OP, maybe you need to see 'em all and do your own Emma film festival and do a review for us!

Well I was trying to be a bit oblique in case it would ruin it for somebody else, which was silly. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything. But based on the dates, I'm pretty sure all the cotton they were using was picked by slaves, and the happy ending isn't so happy when I realized that.

[Anonymous]

Dean Stanley - Edwardian era

[Anonymous]

Catherine the Great--Helen Mirren

[Anonymous]

Carrie

[Anonymous]

The 2005 Pride and Prejudice is stunning. The 2008 bbc sense and sensibility is good but not as good as the movie imo.

[Anonymous]

One I haven’t seen mentioned but I loved was Victoria. Several seasons about the younger years of Queen Victoria.